Michael Klishin has released SWFAddress 1.0, a new open source JS library (and set of simple techniques) that targets Flash/Ajax SEO and deeplinking problem.

SWFAddress uses URL rewrite at client and server-side to redirect from “plain” URL to anchored URL that SWFAddress understands and acts accordingly to what developer implemented.

Thus one can use links to SWF movie sections (or Ajax application states) that Google bot can understand but when http client is a web browser rewriting comes to the rescue and link is substituted with what Flex/Flash/Ajax application turns into application state.

Thank you for mentioning SWFAddress, but there’re few incorrect statements. The name of the author is mistaken, the URL rewriting happens only on the server and the code sample is a confusing mixture of JS and AS code. The SEO approach has potential and probably deserves a better explanation.